Out of the Silent Planet

Paperback | 1 December 2000

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The first novel in C.S. Lewis's classic sci-fi trilogy which tells the adventure of Dr Ransom who was kidnapped and transported to another planet. Dr Ransom is a Cambridge academic who is captured whilst on a walking tour and forced into a spaceship by two men. With them he flies to Malacandra (Mars) . There he escapes his captors and discovers an amazing range of rational creatures on the planet, and in addition, spiritual creatures. Through the story of the Malacandrans, spiritual truths concerning the planet Earth are uncovered. Lewis tells the tale with a wealth of imagination and sense of adventure, drawing out the realities of good and evil, God and the devil from the fantasy.

Industry Reviews

The author of The Screwtape Letters (you didn't miss that, did you?) takes a new path, and produces something definitely above and beyond the usual escape reading of the kind. These are extra-terrestrial adventures as philologist Random on a walking trip in England, is kidnapped aboard a space ship, by ruthless Devine and Weston. Safely arrived at a far off plant, Malacandra, Ransom escapes his captors, lives with the people and learns their ways, and then is driven away again by his kidnappers. Ultimately, under threat, the three Englishmen are permitted to attempt a return to earth, and are successful. Lewis has succeeded in conveying a sense of detachment from our own world, of identity with the speculative life of Mars (Malacandra), of reaching out for a greater, nobler intelligence. Superior writing and reasoning. (Kirkus Reviews)

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